The Development and Analysis of a Test on "Responsibility" for High School Students.

Singh, Balwant; Lambert, Leroy

This fifty-item test is intended for the 'Responsibility' unit of the 'Law in a Free Society' materials published by the California Bar Association. The test was administered as a pre- and post-test to more than 600 grade 11 students. The pre-test data for all students were item-analyzed and the results are made available along with a table of specifications and objectives covered by the test. The post-test data of a random sample of 44 students were also analyzed and the results of that analysis are also being made available. The reliability estimates range between .81 for the post-test to .86 for the pre-test. Several items have negative discrimination indices and those should be revised or discarded before preparing a revised version of the test. (Author/GK)